The Department of English

Matthew Eatough

Matthew Eatough joins Baruch from Vanderbilt University, where he taught courses in English literature, cultural studies, and critical theory. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin (BA), the University of Chicago (MA), and Vanderbilt University (MA, PhD) he specializes in 20th and 21st century Anglophone literature, with an emphasis in British, Irish, and South African literature. Professor Eatough’s research investigates how economics, literature, and the emotions intersect within a wide range of different disciplines and literary traditions. This includes world-systems theory, biotechnology, British and Irish modernism, African literature, and Atlantic studies. He is currently at work on a book project that examines how certain conventional imperial genres have helped us to imagine the emotional framework of globalization. He is the assistant editor of The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms (Oxford, 2012) and the author of recent and forthcoming essays in Modern Language Quarterly, Literature and Medicine, Twentieth-Century Literature, and Safundi.

Most recent or current research:

I am currently at work on a book manuscript that joins economic history and quantitative literary history with close reading in order to examine how certain conventional imperial genres have helped us to imagine the emotional framework of globalization.